Indonesian Gov Demands Shiite Refugees Convert to Sunni Islam

This story ordinarily wouldn’t be worth highlighting. It’s just another example of the typical Islamic intolerance of Obama’s hometown. But lately the media has gone into a feeding frenzy over the migrant Rohyniga Muslims in Burma.

The media has claimed that the violence between Burma’s Buddhist natives and the Rohyniga Muslim refugees is genocide. Time put a Buddhist cleric on its cover calling him the face of Buddhist hate.

The government says it is nearing a solution to repatriate Shiite Muslim families driven from their homes by Sunni hard-liners in Sampang district on Madura Island, following a meeting late on Thursday between the president and local clerics.

Suryadharma Ali, the minister for religious affairs, said on Friday that the meeting in Surabaya, hosted by the East Java governor, was positive and that a reconciliation between the two groups was in sight.

However, he stressed that any meaningful peace would only be obtained with the “enlightenment” of the around 200 Shiites currently living in tenement blocks in Sidoarjo, on the East Java mainland — a term largely understood to mean conversion to mainstream Sunni Islam, but which Suryadharma and other government officials have doggedly refused to clarify.

“In the meeting it was agreed that the reconciliation would be based on the enlightenment of the refugees, so that there’s a confluence of perception with regard to their religion,” the minister said.

“This enlightenment process will be carried out where they are currently staying in Sidoarjo.”

He declined to confirm whether this meant they would have to publicly renounce their faith, and refused to give any details about what the enlightenment process would entail, saying only that it was the main condition laid down by the Sunni clerics for allowing the Shiite families to return home.

The Shiite community was the target of an attack by a Sunni mob in August last year that stemmed from a family dispute between its leader, Tajul Muluk, and his brother, local Sunni cleric Rois Al Hukuma.

If only Indonesia were a Buddhist country, then maybe the fake human rights activists denouncing Burma might care.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

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Suryadharma Ali, the minister for religious affairs, said on Friday
that the meeting in Surabaya, hosted by the East Java governor, was
positive and that a reconciliation between the two groups was in sight.

Indonesians lie every time they open their mouths. Add islam and a politician to that and what do you get? Complete B.S.

hiernonymous

“Indonesians lie every time they open their mouths.”

How do you know?

Fedayeen

Why don’t you guys ho to China and blame the president. Let’s see where that gets you.

Muhammad

What is this in the century of Freedom of Religion, Research and Access to Information. Why this fear? Shia Muslim are living with their Muslim and Non-Muslim fellow citizens peacefully around the world and practicing Islam as their Sunni Muslim brothers practice.
What is this in the century of Freedom of Religion, Research and Access to Information. Why this fear? Shia Muslim are living with their Muslim and Non-Muslim fellow citizens peacefully around the world and practicing Islam as their Sunni Muslim brothers practice.
There is lot of commonalities between Shia and Sunni Muslims, The Holy Prophet (PBUH) The Holy book Quran and Its Teachings are the same, There are some differences which can be discussed in a religious harmonious environment and Dialogue without violating the Human Rights of any faith group.